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For all of the English speaking readers out there I would like to point out that the translation of this amazing book has gone beyond salvagable. Not only do parts of text seem to be missing but also other parts of text seemingly appear out of nowhere(!). Some jokes have gotten simply scrapped, literally scrapped, and at parts the characters react differently from in the book. e.g.: somebody scowling at a joke instead of laughing out loud [page 107(E), 126(R)]. This is only one example among hundreds.
I can only imagine that the translators at some point went and said: 'Yeah, well you know, the English readers won't understand Max at all, so instead we will make his world a much darker place and leave out a lot of good humor and natural joie de vivre that was this book's major turn on. Why did they do this? I do not know, I simply canot believe that native English speakers are so much different from Russian readers that they had to adapt the book for them. At points I really wanted to cry seeing how they had mangled and torn at my favorite book.
One more thing. In the Russian edition there is an intro that fairly well explains how Max got mixed up in all of this and which sets the mood for the entire series. In the English translation it was simply scrapped. That is all. I do not have anything more to add besides how sorry I am for the people who will probably never get to read a decent rendition of this masterpiece. I am afraid the damage is done, and because of it's low success they won't retranslate it again. This makes me sad.